Narayan Tatu Rane is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg. He was former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He former serves as Minister of Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi ministry. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry positions for Industry,Port,Employment and Self-employment;Revenue;and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra.
Ramdas Gangaram Kadam is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He was Member of the Legislative Assembly from Khed Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ratnagiri District,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena. He has been elected consecutively for 4 terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 1990,1995,1999 and 2004. He got elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Shiv Sena Party in Jan. 2010. He was Cabinet Minister of Environment in Maharashtra State Government and guardian minister of Nanded district.
Sanjay Dina Patil is an Indian politician from Mumbai. He was elected to Maharashtra State assembly in 2004 from Bhandup. In 2009,he was elected to 15th Lok Sabha from Mumbai North East constituency in Maharashtra state in India,as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate. He lost the reelection for the same seat in 2014. He was succeeded by Kirit Somaiya of the Bharatiya Janata Party of India.
Vandre East Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.
Vandre West Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India,since 2008. Vandre,also known as Bandra,is a suburb of Mumbai. Before the 2008 delimitation of assembly seats,this seat's area was covered under Vandre Assembly constituency,represented by Ramdas Nayak among others.
Gajanan Kirtikar is Leader of Shivsena and a Member of Parliament (MP) from Mumbai North West in Mumbai,Maharashtra,India. He has been a Member of Legislative Assembly from Malad assembly constituency in Mumbai from 1990 to 2009. He was state minister for home in Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party Government.
Ashish Shelar is an Indian politician and cricket administrator belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Maharashtra Legislative Assembly member representing Vandre West since 2014. He is president of the Mumbai unit of the BJP. He was elected as vice president of Mumbai Cricket Association on 17 June 2015. Elected as treasurer of the BCCI. On 9 September 2015,Shelar gained controversy when he helped ban the sale of meat for 8 days for the annual Jain celebration,Paryushana,at which time total fast from any and every food is required. Most constituencies in Maharashtra ban the sale of meat for only 4 days. The ban was criticized by the BJP's Maharashtra coalition partner,Shiv Sena.
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies. The Assembly meets at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai,though the winter session is held in Nagpur. Along with the Maharashtra Legislative Council,it comprises the legislature of Maharashtra. The presiding officer of the Assembly is the Speaker. Members of the Assembly are directly elected by the people of Maharashtra through elections held every five years,unless the Assembly is dissolved earlier. The current Assembly was elected in October 2019.
Although a parliamentary democracy,Indian politics has increasingly become dynastic,possibly due to the absence of a party organization,independent civil society associations that mobilize support for the party,and centralized financing of elections. Family members have also led the Congress party for most of the period since 1978 when Indira Gandhi floated the then Congress(I) faction of the party. It also is fairly common in many political parties in Maharashtra. The dynastic phenomenon is seen from national level down to district level and even village level.The three-tier structure of Panchayati Raj established in the 1960s also helped to create and consolidate the dynastic phenomenon in rural areas. Apart from government,political families also control cooperative institutions,mainly cooperative sugar factories,district cooperative banks in the state,and since the 1980s private for profit colleges. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party also features several senior leaders who are dynasts. In Maharashtra,the NCP has particularly high level of dynasticism.
Vinayak Raut is an Indian politician &former serving as the Member of Parliament,Loksabha. He is leader of Shiv Sena in Lok Sabha representing Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency in the 17th Lok Sabha. Originally from Mumbai,Raut was previously elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Vile Parle of Mumbai for 1999-2004 as a Shiv Sena candidate. He was also elected as a member of Maharashtra Legislative Council from Shiv Sena Party in 2012. He resigned on 27 May 2014 from the Maharashtra Legislative Council. Raut was elected as MP for Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency since the 2014 elections.
Gulab Raghunath Patil is a politician and incumbent Water supply and Sanitation minister of the Maharashtra state. He is a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA),the state's lower house representing rural Jalgaon constituency. He is a member of Shiv Sena party.
Sanjay Dulichand Rathod is a Shiv Sena politician from Yavatmal district,Maharashtra. He is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Digras-Darwha Assembly Constituency.
Rathod is a strong Shiv Sena leader in Vidarbha and belongs to the Banjara community. He won 2014 assembly election with record margin of 79,864,second highest in Maharashtra.
Ravindra Dattaram Waikar is a Shiv Sena politician from Maharashtra. He is a Member of Parliament from Mumbai North West. He was also a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Jogeshwari East Assembly Constituency. He has been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three consecutive terms in 2009,2014 and 2019. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state,Higher &Technical Education in December 2014. He was given the Housing,Higher &Technical Education portfolio. He was also given responsibility of being guardian minister of Ratnagiri district.
Arjun Panditrao Khotkar is a Shiv Sena politician from Jalna district,Marathwada. He was Member of Legislative Assembly from Jalna,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena. He was appointed Maharashtra's minister of state for Textile,Animal Husbandry,Dairy Development,and Fisheries in July,2016. He has been elected for 4 terms in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 1990,1995,2004 &2014. He was Minister of state in Shiv Sena Government 1999. On 25 November 2017 his 2014 election from Jalna constituency was declared void by Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court for filing his nomination papers after deadline has ended.
Sada Sarvankar is an Indian politician and Shiv Sena leader from Dadar,Mumbai. He is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Mahim Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Vidhan Sabha for three terms in 2004,2014 and 2019. Before that he served as Corporator in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for three terms from 1992 to 2004 till he was asked to contest Dadar Constituency in 2004.
Ramesh Latke was a Shiv Sena politician from Mumbai,Maharashtra. He was a member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represented Andheri East Assembly constituency of Mumbai,Maharashtra,India as a member of Shiv Sena.
Vinayak Nimhan was Shiv Sena politician from Pune,Maharashtra. He was member of the 12th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency. He had been elected to Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for three consecutive terms. For his first two terms,he was elected as a member of the Shivsena. For his third term,he was elected on the Indian National Congress ticket. In Nimhan was defeated in the 2014 assembly elections. He has since then returned to the Shivsena.
Prakash Sawant (1950-2015),better known as Bala Sawant,was an Indian politician and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly &a senior Shiv Sena leader. He was first elected to the Assembly in the 2009 election to the Bandra East constituency. He died on 9 Jan 2015.
Opera House Vidhan Sabha constituency was one of the 288 constituencies in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mumbai area,in India. The constituency existed until the 2004 elections and was part of Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency. It became defunct after the constituency map was redrawn.
Zeeshan Baba Siddique is an Indian politician belonging to the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party. He is currently a MLA in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
